Joan Abrams

Joan lives near Glossop in Derbyshire, and has been part of the Manchester 'yoga scene' for countless years, practising with Jeanne Maslen, a senior teacher there. She holds the Intermediate Junior Level 3 Certificate and has a ‘Yoga Room’ in her home where she teaches individuals or small classes.
However, she is now a 'Sheffielder' - on Tuesdays. Her daughter lives here, her partner teaches here, and she now feels a very welcome part of the Sheffield Yoga Centre. She teaches the 'Older and Stiffer' Tuesday lunchtime class and helps with the Therapeutic class later in the day.

Tel.: 01457 763048 or 077886 72519
Email: JoanAbrams@hotmail.com
Classes: Sheffield Yoga Centre (Walkley)

Caroline Anschutz

I started yoga about 20 years ago with Frances but had a few years out when I had my son. About 6 years ago I took yoga up more seriously as it helped me to cope with the stress at work! I am delighted that I passed my teacher training under the fantastic guidance of Frances and that I can now teach at the Sheffield Yoga Centre.

Tel.:
Email: anschutz_knowles@btinternet.com
Classes: Sheffield Yoga Centre (Walkley)

Marios Argiros

Marios Argiros is a Senior Intermediate Level 2 Iyengar teacher who combines teaching yoga with his work as a classical musician. He came to yoga originally through neck and back problems he had been unable to solve with other therapies and found that Iyengar yoga had a transforming effect on his life and his work as a musician. Marios has studied and practised yoga for many years and completed his teacher training at the Manchester and District Iyengar Yoga Institute. He has studied with many eminent teachers, including the Iyengar family at the Ramamani Memorial Institute in Pune, India.

Tel.: 07976 373844 or (01663) 751269
Email: MariosA@hotmail.co.uk
Web Site: http://www.mariosyoga.com/index.htm
Classes:Manchester & District Institute of Iyengar Yoga, in Hathersage and also in his Chinley Yoga Studio.

Monica Bejarano Cortes

Monica Bejarano Cortes has recently returned to the UK from New Zealand where she had been teaching Yoga for 5 years. She now holds a Junior Intermediate Level 1 certificate. It was in Auckland that she acquired her Iyengar certification. Prior to that she had been living and teaching in Spain. She has taught an extensive variety of people, ages and abilities from the elderly to the athlete community including cyclists, runners and members of the New Zealand national rugby team. Monica has had the opportunity to train with international senior teachers, including Stephanie Quirk (New Zealand), Pixie Lillas (Australia) and Faeq Biria (France). Monica transmits with passion the Iyengar’s teachings as she has learned them from qualified teachers and from her 13 years of personal practice. Monica’s classes are dynamic, enthusiastic, generous and compassionate.

Tel.: 07597941271
Email: mbejaranocortes@gmail.com
Website: zagyoga.com
Classes: Sheffield Yoga Centre (Walkley), Hagglers Corner (Queens Road) and Virgin Active (members only)

Dominic Batten

Dominic started yoga on the advice of an osteopath some fifteen years ago. He no longer needs osteopathy. He qualified as an Introductory Level teacher at Manchester in 2001 and is currently qualified at Intermediate Junior Level 3. As well as attending classes with Frances Homewood and Marios Argiros, Dominic has gained from practising with a range of teachers at Yoga conventions in the UK, and at other events in Greece, Portugal and India. He has attended sessions with both Geeta Iyengar and BKS Iyengar.

Tel.: (0114) 264 9418
Email: Dominic.Batten@btinternet.com
Classes: The Institue (Heeley)

Lorraine Bonete

Lorraine first tried yoga when she was pregnant and attended ante natal yoga classes. She discovered Iyengar yoga after the birth of her birth second child on the advice of her ante natal yoga teacher who recommended Frances Homewood's classes, and hasn't looked back. She has attended a weekly class with Frances since. Lorraine also goes to as many workshops with visiting teachers, in Sheffield and further afield, as she can fit around family and work commitments. She was delighted to have the opportunity to train as an Iyengar yoga teacher and now, having recently passed her teaching assessment and is now teaching at Silverdale School on Tuesday evenings.

Tel.: 07974529485
Email: lorraine.bonete@gmail.com
Classes: Silverdale School (Bents Green)

Mandy Bryce

Mandy Bryce has been practicing yoga for over since 1989 and completed her teacher training in 2007.
She has had the opportunity of studying with Geeta Iyengar and many senior Iyengar Yoga Teachers including Jawahar Bangera, Faek Biria, Rajvi Metha, Margaret Rawlinson and Marion Kilborn. She attends classes with Frances Homewood.
She works full time as an organisational consultant and coach and has found yoga very beneficial in helping her to manage the demands of a busy work and home life. She teaches a beginners class one night a week and occasional introductory courses. She  also helps teach a weekly Restorative Class with other teachers at the centre.

Tel: 07855 340 746
Email: info@mandybryceassociates.co.uk
Classes: Sheffield Yoga Centre (Walkley)

Frances Homewood

Frances has been teaching Iyengar yoga in Sheffield since 1983. Her classes are enjoyed by beginners to intermediate level students and she is known for warmth and humour in her teaching. In 2005 she realised a lifelong dream of opening a dedicated Sheffield Yoga Centre so that people can practice in a calm and fully equipped environment.
She has studied in Pune, India with the Iyengar family on many occasions and feels very blessed to have had these opportunites.
She is a qualified Assessor and Teacher Trainer for the Iyengar Yoga Associaton (UK).

Tel.: 07944 169238
Email: info@sheffieldyogacentre.co.uk
Classes: Sheffield Yoga Centre (Walkley)

Cath Morgan

After starting yoga in Sydney in 1997, Cath was first introduced to Iyengar Yoga by Frances Homewood on her return to the UK in 2003. She then returned to Australia in 2007 where she followed a teacher training programme with renowned senior teacher, Pixie Lillas. Inspired by Pixie’s passion and dedication to this method of yoga, Cath deepened her knowledge through many hours of classes, assisting, workshops and retreats. She also attended the 5 day Australian convention with Geeta Iyengar in 2009. After passing Introductory Level 1 and 2 in Sydney and teaching for a year at the Marrickville Yoga centre in Sydney, Cath again came back to the UK and is now teaching classes around her home in the Hope Valley and continues to attend classes and workshops in Sheffield, Manchester and Buxton.

Tel.: 07565 945 440
Email: cath.morgan@hopevalleyyoga.co.uk
Classes: Baslow (Village Hall), Hathersage (Lawrence Hall), Great Longstone (Village Hall)

Iris Pimm

Tel.: 0162 9636341
Email: iris.pimm@zeronet.co.uk
Classes: Sheffield Yoga Centre (Walkley), Youlgreave (Peak District)

Emma Rattenbury

Emma has been practicing Iyengar yoga in Sheffield for over 20 years. She has been teaching regular classes at the Sheffield Yoga Centre since she qualified as an Introductory teacher in 2007, and is currently studying for her Junior Intermediate certificate. She is passionate about the benefits of yoga for everyone, and in particular its value in addressing physical, mental and emotional challenges. She has assisted in the therepeutic classes at the Yoga Centre and is setting up new small classes at Wellforce complimentary therapy centre from September. Emma combines her yoga teaching with her organisational development consultancy business.

Tel.: 0114 255 6406 / 0783 7811967
Email: Emma.Rattenbury@blueyonder.co.uk
Classes: Sheffield Yoga Centre (Walkley), Wellforce (Broomhall)

Carolyn Usher

Carolyn began studying yoga when she joined her local gym and quickly found that a yoga class was much more preferable than the treadmill! Iyengar Yoga became an important part of Carolyn’s life and she decided to take the teacher training course so she could pass on the benefits of yoga to others. Carolyn studied to become a teacher with the North East Iyengar Yoga Institute and qualified as a teacher in 2010. Having moved to Sheffield in August 2010, Carolyn has been welcomed into the local yoga community and is delighted to be given the chance of teaching at Sheffield Yoga Centre.

Tel: 07843 384496
Email: CUsher84@gmail.com
Classes: Sheffield Yoga Centre (Walkley), Bawtry (Doncaster)

Bridget Strong

Bridget started yoga as a way of coping with the pressures and demands of a young family and quickly became a convert of Iyengar Yoga. She works in mental health and can see how beneficial yoga can be to our whole wellbeing - both physical and emotional. She also plays the violin and has found that yoga has also helped with posture and avoiding the aches and pains that musicians often suffer from. Yoga has also helped manage and overcome chronic backpain.
Bridget qualified as an introductory teacher in 2007 and gained her Junior Intermediate Level 1 certificate in 2011. She teaches at the Sheffield Yoga Centre and in St Mary's community Centre.

Tel: 0114 327 3147 / 079 391 38348
Email: BridgetStrongUK@yahoo.co.uk
Classes: Sheffield Yoga Centre (Walkley), St Mary's Community Centre (City Centre)

Pascale Vacher

Pascale started Iyengar yoga in 1994 and qualified as a Iyengar yoga teacher in November 2007. She now hold an Intermediate Junior Level 2 certificate. She attends weekly classes at the Sheffield Yoga Centre with Frances Homewood and regularly study with Marios Argiros and other Senior teachers. Pascale runs three weekly yoga classes and regular workshops at Silverdale School (Bents Green) and occasionally teaches at the Sheffield Yoga Centre.
She is also a member of the SADIYA committee and maintains this website the best she can (;-).
Her yoga practice also allows her to escape from a full-on family and working life.

Tel: 0114 236 5177 or 079 4164 6418
Email: Pascale_Vacher@yahoo.co.uk
Classes: Silverdale School (Bents Green), occasionally in Sheffield Yoga Centre (Walkley)

Wendy Weller-Davies

Wendy has been practising Iyengar yoga since 1992. She qualified to teach in November 2007 and gained her Junior Intermediate Level 1 certificate in 2011. She has studied with many eminent Iyengar yoga teachers including Geetha and BKS Iyengar in Pune in 2004 (Geetha's 60th birthday celebrations), Rajvi Metha, Jawahar, Faek Biria, Marion Kilburn and many others.
Wendy began teaching at the Sheffield Yoga Centre in January 2008. She is also currently Chair of SADIYA, edits the SADIYA newsletter and is our representative on the IYA(UK) committee.
As a member of the full-time workers' "rat race", Wendy is particularly keen on the aspects of yoga that help us to achieve a balance in our busy working and personal lives.

Tel: (0114) 236 3039
Email: Wendy@wellerdavies.co.uk
Classes: Sheffield Yoga Centre (Walkley)

Iyengar teachers
in the region

Peak Yoga Centre (Buxton)

Sue Lovell holds a Junior Intermediate Level III Iyengar teaching certificate and has been practising yoga for 16 years. She has a studio in Buxton where she regularly runs workshops with visiting teachers as well as offering her own regular classes.

Alan Brown

Alan is a Senior teacher who regularly teaches in Cowling, Oakworth, Nelson, Allerton, Bradford and Colne. He also organises yoga holidays and runs regular Teacher Training and Teacher’s workshops.

Elizabeth Tonner

Elisabeth is a Senior teacher who teaches in Wakefield, Huddersfield, Bradford and runs regular Teacher Training and Teacher’s Workshops.

Carolyn Ferguson

Carolyn qualified as an Iyengar teacher in 2003. In 2010 she passed her Intermediate Junior 3 certificate.  Yoga is very much part of her life and teaching has become a way of sharing her love of yoga with others.
She teaches regular classes in Didsbury.

Manuela Meadows

Manuela has been teaching Yoga for over 9 years, 6 of which as an Iyengar teacher and she is qualified to Junior Intermediate level 3. As a teacher her aim is to show people that anyone can benefit from Iyengar Yoga and at whatever level of fitness or flexibiltiy there is always much to be gained.

Tel.: 01484 767723
Email: manuela@roomforyoga.co.uk
Web Site: http://www.roomforyoga.co.uk/
Classes: in Brighouse